Greetings, all.

Currently, we are running 5.1 on an HP-UX L-class box, with a couple
'bots (one old Surestore juke with (4) DLT4000s, one Neo juke with a
DLT220). It seems to work reasonably well. We have a few hundred tapes
'in circulation'. So, we're probably one of the smaller sites that visit
this list. :>)

We're taking the plunge, and planning a migration of our backup
environment to Red Hat Linux (the HP-UX maint fees will pretty much pay
for the change).

My thought on migration was to hook the Neo juke up to the new RH box,
install Netbackup with the new servername, and import the SDLT tapes
(around thirty). When they have been satisfactorily imported into the
new server's database, backup the catalog on the old box, and then
delete the media from the HP-UX box.

Then, we'd run the boxes simultaneously for a while, and once we feel
confident with the new server, follow the same basic operation with the
'regular' dlt's and the other juke and decommission the HP-UX box.

It would appear that this isn't all that different than a disaster
recovery scenario, exc that I can't re-use the catalog as the server
name is different (and I've always hated the current name of the backup
server anyway). 

What other recommendations/caveats could you folks suggest? I'm sure
that I've missed a slew of things. :>)

Cheers,

-dd